This privacy policy gives you useful information about how this website address shonaclingham.com and its owner, Shona Clingham, collects or uses your data.
When is your information collected?
This website collects information when you subscribe to a newsletter, when you leave a comment or message, and when you enter a promotional event.
How is your information protected?
This site uses an SSL certificate. It provides only articles and information. Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. You will never be asked for private information such as credit card numbers.
How is your information used?
newsletters
If you would like to subscribe to updates from the website’s blog or new book releases, you can do so on the site. Your email address is required so that the newsletter can be sent to you.
Comments and messages
When visitors leave comments on the site the data shown in the comments form will be collected, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
You may wish to connect by sending messages or emails or using the contact form on the website. Your information will only be used to respond.
Promotional Events
If you participate in an event such as a giveaway, your information (e.g. your name or email address) will be used to administer the promotion. Further information will only be required for winning entries.
Cookies
This website uses cookies. This helps to provide you with a good experience whilst browsing the website, and also allows for improvements to the site.
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.) settings. If you disable cookies, some features will be disabled. It will turn off some of the features that make your site experience more efficient.
If you leave a comment on the site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, several cookies will be set to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
All this talk of cookies makes me hungry.
Third-party Links
This site may contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please be aware that these websites have their own privacy policies and that I do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Third-party Disclosure
Your personal information will not be sold, traded, or otherwise transferred to outside parties without advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist in the operation of this website. Your information may be released when its release is appropriate to comply with legal obligations.
Changes to this privacy policy
Any changes made to this privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently for updates.